2025-02-16 2:56:30 ¶ ●

It makes me giddy how we never question why Hannibal doesn’t continue eating Will’s brain in Digestivo because we just naturally understand through previous storytelling that Hannibal’s motivation in eating Will is inherently different than his other cannibalism acts. With his other victims, he chases them like the grim reaper; stubbornly possessive over their demise because it’s amusing and it’s fun. But we know he loves Will; that it makes sense that won’t eat him. It’s so easy because the story convinces us that Hannibal is not having fun, he’s in fact quite miserable, he’s struggling in limbo trying to overcome his internal crises, and that the lighthouse that keeps drawing away his attention is Will Graham. He has this hot thing in his hand he can’t drop because he’s starving. There’s a strife here for all the characters and it makes complete sense that he’s not going through with a decision because he’s lost and confused about what to do.